One of many biggest comedies within the historical past of cinema will lastly proceed in a sequel. This Is Nonetheless Spinal Faucet, anybody?
In an look on the RHLSTP With Richard Herring podcast, This Is Spinal Faucet director Rob Reiner confirmed that the sequel, which is able to characteristic all of the core members of everybody’s favourite pathetic heavy metallic band Spinal Faucet — David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Visitor), and Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) — will return in a brand new film, together with precise reputable rock stars Paul McCartney, Elton John and Garth Brooks.
The sequel, which was initially introduced again on the 2022 Cannes Movie Pageant, is about to enter manufacturing in 2024. Supposedly the movie will “mimic” Martin Scorsese’s The Final Waltz, the well-known live performance movie that documented the ultimate efficiency of the Band earlier than they broke up.
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Right here was Reiner’s earlier assertion on why, all these years later, he determined to make one other Spinal Faucet:
The plan is to do a sequel that comes out on the fortieth anniversary of the unique movie and I can let you know hardly a day goes by with out somebody saying, why don’t you do one other one? For thus a few years, we mentioned, ‘nah.’ It wasn’t till we got here up with the correct thought how to do that. You don’t wish to simply do it, to do it. You wish to honor the primary one and push it slightly additional with the story.
Spinal Faucet debuted on a sketch particular referred to as The T.V. Present from 1979. The This Is Spinal Faucet movie, an ingenious fake documentary, adopted a couple of years later, and for some time, McKean, Visitor, and Shearer toured as Spinal Faucet, taking part in concert events. (They had been even the musical company on an episode of Saturday Evening Stay.)
In 1992, they launched an album of latest songs, Break Just like the Wind; in 2009, they launched one other album, Again From the Useless. The actual males who painting Spinal Faucet additionally subsequently created a second fictional band, the Folksmen, whose made-up historical past was chronicled in one other pretend documentary, A Mighty Wind.
I do not know if this new Spinal Faucet shall be good or dangerous, however one factor is for certain about it: The band’s drummer resides on borrowed time.
[H/T Variety]
